Mary P. says she was listening to this episode around the same time her doctor felt a nodule on her thyroid. She bought some iodized salt and started cooking with it, thought nothing more of it. When she went back for her biopsy they took new ultrasound images of her thyroid. Her once one centimeter nodule was now around five millimeters. This is a resounding endorsement of years of revisionist history.
Author, psychologist and professional poker player Maria Konnikova joins the show as Revisionist History’s first ombudsman. Maria advocates for the audience, reading letters from listeners and challenging Malcolm on matters great and small. They discuss how iodized salt is changing lives, the ethics of the Minnesota starvation experiments, and the ever-changing guidance around drinking alcohol. If you’d like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts, be sure to sign up for our email list at Pushkin.fm.
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